Johannes Giloth is the Senior Vice President of Nokia Business Services (NBS) and Chief Procurement Officer at Nokia, based in Munich, Germany.
Johannes is a senior executive, with broad international and cross-cultural experience in the telecommunications industry in both general management and consulting positions. Results-oriented, Johannes has a track record of successfully running large operations in global companies, leading strategic transformation programs and big international teams in a complex and fast-changing environment. With a proven ability to develop strategies and organizations, Johannes has a strong focus on implementation and the delivery of measurable value.
In his current position, Johannes’ focus is on creating an end to end customer experience through process-driven operations, eliminating organizational boundaries and deepening customer intimacy as a reliable business partner. Disrupting traditional business models, the NBS team of ~6,000 employees aims to seamlessly execute end to end supply chain, procurement and key finance processes, like Order to Cash and Source to Pay, contributing to Nokia’s growth.
Prior to his current role, Johannes designed the future end-to-end value chain of digital operations, supply chain and procurement by applying a bimodal approach: driving continuous improvement while investing in disruptive innovations.
Throughout his career, Johannes has acquired in-depth senior management experience in supply chain, procurement, finance, organizational and business development, business transformation, change management, outsourcing, mergers & acquisitions, post-merger integration, and management consulting.
Johannes holds a degree from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (1997) in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering and a degree from the University of Greenwich, London (1995) in International Business.